30 Minute Green Pasta Recipe with Kale
This yummy green pasta might be one of the most delicious ways to eat kale! The green pasta sauce comes together in a few minutes in the blender with no sauteing - the kale leaves are quickly blanched in the pasta pot for fewer dishes. It’s a kid friendly, weeknight dinner that just so happens to be gluten free and low FODMAP.
Ingredients
- ½ pound bunch curly green kale (de-stemmed, see note)
- ¼ cup nutritional yeast
- ¼ cup hemp hearts
- ¼ packed cup fresh mint leaves
- ½ lemon (juiced, about 2 tablespoons)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound your favourite pasta (keep it gluten free for low FODMAP folks!)
- 1 cup reserved pasta water (you won't use it all!)
Directions
- 1
Bring a large pot of water to boil. Once boiled, salt water and add kale. Blanch for 2 minutes. Remove using tongs, shake excess water, and place directly in the blender.
- 2
Let water come back to a full boil, add pasta and cook according to package directions.
- 3
Meanwhile, add hemp hearts, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, mint and salt to blender. Set aside.
- 4
Before pasta is done, reserve 1 cup of pasta water. Add 1/3 cup to the blender and blend green pasta sauce on high for 45-60 seconds, until perfectly smooth. Taste and adjust salt, nutritional yeast or lemon if need be. You want it to taste very bright and vibrant as it mellows on the pasta.
- 5
Drain pasta in a colander and rinse quickly with cool water. Return pasta to the pot - off of the heat - and toss with green sauce. Add 1-2 tablespoons of pasta water at a time if you find the sauce is too thick (I rarely need it).
- 6
Serve with some flaky salt, chile flakes or extra nutritional yeast if you like.